These quotes are 87 years old, but could just as well be on Occupy posters or in a campaign ad.
"This country is bigger than Wall Street. If they don’t believe it, show ’em the map."
"It’s all right to let Wall Street bet each other millions of dollars every day but why make these bets affect the fellow who is plowing a field out in Claremore, Oklahoma?"
“When a party can’t think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland...”
“People want JUST taxes, more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.”
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat."
"I am no believer in this “hard work, perseverance, and taking advantage of your opportunities” that these Magazines are so fond of writing some fellow up in. The successful don’t work any harder than the failures. They get what is called in baseball the breaks."
"The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes."
"Tax relief, farm relief, flood relief, dam relief—none of these have been settled, but they are getting them in shape for consideration at the next session of Congress with the hope that those needing relief will perhaps have conveniently died in the meantime."
* I added a few more from the first source. They are not all from 1924.
http://www.willrogers.com/says/will_says.htmlhttp://www.truth-out.org/will-rogers-occupy-wall-street/1322511389
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